Four weeks of anti-government protests that have hit French brick-and-mortar retailers are also taking their toll on online peers during the crucial Christmas shopping season, said France's e-commerce federation, Fevad.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday said France will tax digital giants at a national level from 2019 if European Union states cannot reach an agreement on a tax on digital revenues for the bloc.

European Union finance ministers failed to agree a tax on digital revenues on Tuesday, despite a last minute Franco-German plan to salvage the proposal by narrowing its focus to companies like Google and Facebook .

EU governments are divided over a plan to tax big internet firms like Google and Facebook on their turnover, fearing retaliation from the US, and could delay its application, officials said on Tuesday.

A European Union tax overhaul to raise levies on large digital firms needs a thorough debate although an agreement could still be found by the end of the year, Germany's Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Saturday.

The German finance ministry denied a newspaper report on Wednesday that Finance Minister Olaf Scholz had given up on plans to make internet giants, including Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, pay more tax.

...in revenue as 60 of its 120 hypermarkets had experienced disruptions due to the protests.French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has also forecast that the protests would trim 0.1 percent of a point off national out...

...percent in the quarter from the previous three months, down from 0.4 percent in a previous estimate.Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire declined to give an estimate for 2018 growth but forecast the nationwide tumult wo...

...March."Don't expect us to solve the challenge of a generation in a couple weeks or months," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, adding the Franco-German proposal could still yield a deal.German Finance Min...

...chic Paris shopping districts, where a police lockdown and vandalism forced many stores to shut.Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire met with business representatives Monday to tally the damage from arson and shattered ...

...analysis.“There must be the adoption of a directive on digital taxation by the end of this year,” Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, using the term for EU laws.“There will be the question of implementation of th...

...preventing them from avoiding taxation by shifting profits and through tax optimization, he added.French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called on Scholz and other European counterparts to make a decision soon.“We ...

...according to a draft proposal seen by Reuters.After meeting his German counterpart in Paris, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who has made a political priority in recovering more tax from digital companies, ...

...simply cannot be complicit as this administration courts economic disaster in this fashion."French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he was worried about the possibility of a U.S.-EU trade war, but said Europe h...

...in revenue as 60 of its 120 hypermarkets had experienced disruptions due to the protests.French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has also forecast that the protests would trim 0.1 percent of a point off national out...

...percent in the quarter from the previous three months, down from 0.4 percent in a previous estimate.Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire declined to give an estimate for 2018 growth but forecast the nationwide tumult wo...

...March."Don't expect us to solve the challenge of a generation in a couple weeks or months," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, adding the Franco-German proposal could still yield a deal.German Finance Min...

...chic Paris shopping districts, where a police lockdown and vandalism forced many stores to shut.Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire met with business representatives Monday to tally the damage from arson and shattered ...

...analysis.“There must be the adoption of a directive on digital taxation by the end of this year,” Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, using the term for EU laws.“There will be the question of implementation of th...

...according to a draft proposal seen by Reuters.After meeting his German counterpart in Paris, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who has made a political priority in recovering more tax from digital companies, ...

...simply cannot be complicit as this administration courts economic disaster in this fashion."French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said he was worried about the possibility of a U.S.-EU trade war, but said Europe h...

...according to a draft proposal seen by Reuters.After meeting his German counterpart in Paris, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who has made a political priority in recovering more tax from digital companies, ...

...our treasuries,” the four ministers wrote in a letter seen by Reuters.The letter, signed by French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, Wolfgang Schaeuble of Germany, Pier-Carlo Padoan of Italy and Luis de Guindos, was...